Ep. 10: Panawahpskek
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Ep. 10: Panawahpskek
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The story of how the HoltraChem chemical plant poisoned the river that sustained the Penobscot Nation for 10,000 years, and how a 22-year lawsuit produced a cleanup that still isn't finished | On February 18, 2014, the State of Maine announced an emergency closure of seven square miles of the lower Penobscot River and Penobscot Bay to all commercial fishing for lobster and crab. The reason? Mercury. The lobstermen who worked those waters had not been told the lobsters might be unsafe. They had been feeding them to their families for years.
The contamination came from a chemical plant 25 miles upstream. By the time the plant closed in 2000, somewhere between 6 and 12 metric tons of mercury had escaped into the river that had sustained the Penobscot Nation for more than 10,000 years. The plant has been closed for over 25 years, but the mercury is still there.
This is the story of how a 33-year industrial operation poisoned the largest river in Maine, why a 22-year lawsuit led to a cleanup effort that's still incomplete, and what it means when the people who lived on a river for millenia are the last ones consulted about how to save it.